What Has Deceived You About This Life?

My heart was heavy that afternoon. I had a to-do-list that I completely ignored because my head couldn't think straight and my focus was scattered; it was all over the place. So I wrote a poem down below because writing words that rhyme is STILL one of my favourite go-to coping mechanism. This poem was …

Fair Financial Dealings & The Penalty Clause

Some of you guys may already know that I spent my last two years of my secondary schooling (when I was in Form 4 and Form 5) in MRSM Langkawi. I remember my time there quite fondly especially about how I had gained a lot of weight due to daily chocolate consumption as a form of …

The Clichés I Utterly Detest

Assalamualaikum and good day, dear readers! Sometimes I wonder at the values that permeate the society we currently live in.  I miss the times when there were no social media and people could not be easily cancelled over TRUTHFUL things that they say that may have hurt someone’s feelings. I mourn the slow death of …

The Biased World In The Age of Doublethink

Dear readers, My blog has not been updated for more than 2 months now. Not because I have nothing to write. But because I have too much that initially I could not possibly decide on which topic to type up.  The Biased World Life has been quite difficult for many people in various parts of …

January 2022 Book Reviews

Dear readers, In my last blog post I did not include my book reviews for the month of January because I was still in the middle of finishing some books and could not review them properly until I am done with them (and also because I was hooked on Tik Tok for awhile and could …

Contract MOs, Career Progression & The System

Dear readers, If you have been following my blog since I was a medical student, you would probably know that I have always had pretty strong opinions about certain things. Not all things, guys; not even many things. But certain things do bother me! Some issues are very dear to my heart. Issues of housemanship …

Truth Over Feeling; Fact Over Fiction

Assalamualaikum everyone! I hope this post finds you in the greatest of mood as I am currently in. Alhamdulillah my dear readers, I have said goodbye to life as an MO since early this month as I am now officially doing specialist call. I’ve just had the Temuduga Pakar on 4/3/21, the result of which …

Moral Injury

  I have stopped counting how many incidences regarding house officers have made it in the news since I myself started my journey as a doctor. We are not sure whether this particular houseman had committed suicide due to work-related issues or personal issues. But what we do know for sure is that there was …

The Eid-ul-Adha Gift of Hagia Sophia

As Muslims will be celebrating Eid-ul-Adha this coming Friday on the 31st of July 2020, I would like to wish all my readers Eid Mubarak. May all of you have a blessed Eid and may Allah accept our sacrifices and good deeds in these first 10 days of Dzulhijjah. Alhamdulillah, Muslims all over the world …

Identity Vs Role Confusion

According to Eric Erikson, identity vs role confusion is one of the psychosocial crisis that we all go through in life as we mature into adulthood. There are 8 stages of psychosocial crisis throughout our lives. If we are able to resolve all of our psychosocial crisis, we will emerge as a healthy individual with …